Oh do **** off with this let's whack the airport stick again cos its what Ben touched wanted. Everybody who uses it wanted it and its a fantastic airport. Maybe a labour Mayor could gave achieved the same for it but the only people I ever see slagging off Teesside airport are people that never use it.This won't look good for Houchen, or the airport passenger numbers I expect, albeit too late to impact the numbers from previous. LogainAir pulled the Aberdeen flight.
Airline pulls out of Teesside Airport as route is scrapped
Teesside Airport is 'examining opportunities' for alternative airlines to provide the routewww.gazettelive.co.uk
Every time I've been to the airport (which isn't many) it seems the Aberdeen flight was one of the main ones, think it fly's nearly every day?
No it isn't. It's packed throughout 8 months of the year and still relatively busy the rest of the year with commuters to Europe and beyond who bring vital money back into the Teesside economy.
It loses money; you can't escape that fact and we all pay for it.
Its not packed 8 months a year, and its still costing the tax payer millions
Yes it is. I use the airport 20 times a year. What's your basis for your assumption?
Its not packed 8 months of the year, its getting 20% of the numbers that Peel got at their peak. Its getting far less than before it was even sold to peel for a song and a promise of investment. It's getting less than Peel got up to 2009, which was after the financial crash decimated the travel industry - have a think on that. If it was packed 8 month of the year, where were the extra 800k passengers when it was reasonably busy? Airlines have regularly pulled routes or pulled out entirely.
Do you think your tax payments would be spent elsewhere if we didn't have the airport and have you thought about the loss in revenue the teesside economy would have without it?
Tell you what, just go there and see for yourself. Once you go through security there's barely a seat available during the holiday periods. It was never ever like that during the peel ownership and I've travelled through there very regularly since about 2003.
Which man am I in support of?
Which 8 months of the year is it packed? Its defenitely not April only 3 or 4 flights a day and will be even less when the Aberdeen flight stops. Newcastle has well over a 100. Teesside airport is a huge money pit no can argue about that.
Probably because there’s not many seats.
There are a lot of seats relative to the size of the airport. Yes I do use the airport a lot and I do have vested interest in it being available to me. I'm with you on crime, child poverty, education and probably a lot if other thing but let's take your argument on buses, count how many people you see on the next bus that goes past you or even the next train and apply the same logic that everyone is using as a stick to beat down teesside airport.
I suppose Peel did have the teleporters back then to allow people to get through security and appear directly on plains without making the airport appear busy. It's brilliant what you can do when you don't have to obey the laws of physics. I truly wonder how they managed 4x the amount of passengers without ever actually being busy yet its now packed out for 8 months of the year.
It’s Humberside Airport with a token sun flight
